strstr

Locate substring

Calling Sequence

res = strstr(haystack,needle)

Arguments

:haystack A character string or matrix of character strings : :needle A character string or matrix of character strings : :res A character string or matrix of character strings :

Description

res = strstr(haystack,needle) Returns a string matrix starting from where the first occurrence of needle in haystack to the end of haystack, or ‘’ if there needle is not part of haystack.

Examples

strstr('This is a simple string','simple')
strstr('This is a simple string','sample')
strstr(['This is a simple string','in scilab'],'is')
strstr(['This is a sample string','in scilab'],['a','scilab'])

See Also

• strrchr Find the last occurrence of a character in a string
• strchr Find the first occurrence of a character in a string